Find the word definition

Crossword clues for freehand

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freehand
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a freehand sketch
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But she was, sitting in the parlor and drawing freehand on a large tablet.
▪ Instead of copying coats of arms, she drew and painted freehand.
▪ These can be brought into continuous curves by freehand softening of the joints.
Wiktionary
freehand
  1. drawn using the hand without any helping device. v

  2. To conduct a procedure involving use of the hands without any helping device or guide.

WordNet
freehand

adj. done by hand without mechanical aids or devices; "a freehand drawing" [syn: freehanded]

Wikipedia
Freehand

Freehand may refer to:

  • Freehand Books, literary imprint
  • Freehand Group, media company
  • Freehand lace
  • Drum roll#Freehand technique, drumming technique
  • Adobe FreeHand, software package
  • Free Hand, a 1975 album by Gentle Giant
  • FreeHand (company), a manufacturer of premium dog food

Usage examples of "freehand".

Robert Fitz-Stephen, a powerful man of the Norman type, handsome, freehanded, sumptuous in his way of living, liberal and jovial, given to wine and dissipation.

He seemed good-natured, he was freehanded, he had money, he never said anything.

Nemes jogs to the fixed ropes, climbs them freehand, and cuts all of them loose -- ascent lines, rappel lines, safety lines, everything.

But as these are freehand lines, it requires some taste and knowledge to draw them properly, and of course in a large drawing several more squares and circles might be added to aid the draughtsman.

And how many missiles do you think would get to their targets when they can match velocities freehand on those broomsticks of theirs?

Backbreaker Ames called him out on New Angola, and though Ames was seven feet tall, 400 pounds of rock-hard muscle, and a former freehand heavyweight champion, the young Widowmaker killed him in hand-to-hand combat.

She learned that she had just missed a Wild West pageant, recreated from Earth's ancient past, as well as a much-ballyhooed match for the freehand middleweight championship of the Inner Frontier.

Yet he goes off for a fortnight's leave, and puts my boy in full charge, with all that immense business in his hands, and a freehand to do what he likes with it.

Waterhouse sketches out a freehand map of the Southwest Pacific theater of operations, from Burma to the Solomons, from Nippon to New Zealand.